Nowhere else I would rather be

Marichyasana III - Sage Marichi Pose 3, Seated Sage Twist With Bind C

The kiddos, or you, or both 😱 are sick and suddenly, without warning ones focus is single minded and undivided; nothing else matters. 🧿

Thoughtlessness

Phalakasana - Plank Pose, hip twist

Feet hips distance apart.

Hurts so good.

Twists are far more potent now than in my twenties. Is the sensation from childbearing and birthing? Amassed responsibilities? Accumulated toxicity? Crystalized convictions?  … 

Vinyasa = no thoughts! Moving through postures breath by breath reduces opportunities for extraneous thoughts. I forgot my water bottle in the studio today. (& Yesterday I forgot my mat!) Not because I wasn’t thinking, but because I was thinking too much!!

Selective

 

Dhanurasana - Bow Pose

Always one to grab the ankles in big back bends, maybe this week it’s time I clasped the toes.

The years are long, but the days are short; so let’s be selective with our interests, commitments, engagements and activities for, thankfully, we can have it all, just not all at once. 

Destroyer of all diseases

 

Matsyasana - Fish Pose

Reduce stiffness in shoulders and neck. Improve posture. Balance the thyroid.

Self-compassionate healing après over-giving. 

Shrewd

 

Supta Padangusthasana - Reclined Big Toe Pose

Preserving energy is not underperforming, it is clever planning. 

Start here

 

Phalakasana - Plank Pose

Small victories: 1. Make the bed. 2. Brush your teeth. 3. Walk the dog. 4. Brush your teeth. 5. Unmake the bed. 

Tiger mom 🐅

Viaghrasana - Tiger Curl Pose

In order of importance:

1. State of mind.

2. Breath.

3. Asana, physical pose.

🐯 

Question: “Mom, what’s the most unhealthy thing for you?”

Response: “Hmmmm … unhealthy thoughts?”

Years

 

Uttitha Tadasana - Mountain Pose, with Backbend

Years - decades - of practicing yoga allow for a vast catalogue of poses to call upon and with less ego attached to them; including the acceptance that certain poses may never look a specific way.

Cobwebs in the attic

 

Parsvottanasana - Pyramid Pose 

🕷️ IDENTIFY and sweep aside your COBWEBS. 🕸️ 🧹 

Velocity

Dhanurasana - Bow Pose

It is an effortful task to reverse the momentum from intake to outtake when a decision has been made to disencumber yourself (of both your beliefs and your belongings). But once that tide has been turned - you are unstoppable. 🌊 🏹

Kvetching

🔥 🙄 🔥 

WHAT do I even WANT ?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

How do we discover our true heart’s desires? The genuine magic begins after we manifest all those ‘ought, should, need, musts…’

💚💛Dog Days of Summer💛💚

Course of inaction

 

Wake-up-got-nowhere-to-be-but-here is my 💛 preferred vibe. & what I am ⚡️ currently choosing. 

Bolognese with 🍰 & photos

Marjaryasana - Cat pose / Adho Mukha Svanasana - Downward Facing Dog Pose

 “I KNOW we didn’t have dinner! Because I DON’T remember sitting down together !”  

The family sit-down dinner is steadily back in fashion as baby gets increasingly older. And the children very much rely on this ritual. 

You can find us at home cooking (and eating). Alfresco. 

She’s so misty

Standing Squat Pose on Tip Toes

It was a bustling, clamorous day at the pool with nary a place to unwind, but I lay myself on the one-and-only empty chaise longue and somehow the extra ‘static’ helped a Message come in sunny. As the other adults sympathized and the children splashed — HUSH — I experienced an UNVEILing amidst the MIST. An aha in the hubbub. 
 

SuperCareGiverHeroStar 🌟

 

Utthita Eka Padasana -  Standing Balance, One Leg Raised

As I watched another woman caregiving today (I had a few hours away from my own supportive duties,) it stopped me dead in my tracks how important, beautiful, and fulfilling it is - the work of caring for others. On my end, rearing my children nonstop has felt demanding and intolerable as of late, but the image of this smiling lady pushing a grinning older gentleman in his wheelchair on our wooded path was just what I needed to startle me back into recognizing our shared guardian superstardom. 🌟 

Present parent, calm kids 🎁 

Beacon

 

Light bright beacon of artistic imagination. 

I have leaned heavily into the Mother role - which has physically manifested family-friendly, practical, durable, colorful, grounding and compounding clothes, foods and shelters. But there is a lighter, brighter, ASCETIC aspect of myself I’m turning more and more towards (without eschewing my foremost family-first ethos).

🍯

 

Sweet books, sweet dreams.

Attract more bees with honey. 

Our neighbor. 

A little bit hurt, but a lot more free

 

Paschimottanasana - Seated Forward Fold

It may feel like a loss, but did you wish for lightness? ✨ 

one foot two foot red foot blue foot

 

Trikonasana - Triangle Pose

Instructors will most often cue the trikonasana drishti 👁️ upwards to the skyward reaching hand, but I prefer to gaze down when GROUNDing is called for. During TURBULENT times FOCUS on your FOOTING. Literally. 

Press Pause

 

Vatayasana - Horse Pose

When matters get twisted, turned around, upside-down, fast-forwarded or rewound. Press PAUSE.